Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps… like Apple’s own iMessage.
RCS dates back to 2008 and Samsung and Google are just now getting around to supporting it… They should be ashamed of themselves. iMessage exists, and has the pull that it does, because Google spent 15 years fucking around with all kinds of bull shit. Meanwhile, Apple users had 1 consistent platform which saw regular updates to add features and functionality.
Ars put a nice list together of Google’s nonsense. Maybe Google should prove they can stick to something for more than a year or two before having the gall to shame others who have been very consistent on their approach for over a decade.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/
Hey now, I’ve been rocking RCS for three years. The only reason it took so long to begin with is because Google was trying to get service providers to implement it themselves. Google finally said fuck it and started doing it themselves iMessage style and then providers started playing along.
What are they looking for the carriers to do? RCS uses data, the carriers support data.
RCS wasn’t originally supposed to run on data, it only does now because carriers didn’t want to support it natively.